His work is wonderful to look at. You can see the Dali influences. Still, it manages to fascinate in an original way.
Jean-Pierre Alaux
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Dali
6 06 2014When I lived in Belgium many years ago, there was an exhibition of Dali prints in Antwerp. I went to the gallery and was surprised to find that many of the prints, signed by Dali, were selling for $200 Canadian. If I’d had any money I would have bought them. But it shocked me. Was Dali desperate? I think he might have made prints or had prints made of his work and signed thousands. He was a very odd man. But interesting. He made a film with Disney which is quite interesting. He made a film with Hitchcock and clothing designs for Coco Chanel. I love his work. But he is like Nietsche in that there may be more smoke than substance to his work. Still his work has influenced generations of artists.
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Marcel Caram
6 08 2013
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Dali
7 07 2013When I lived in Belgium many years ago, there was an exhibition of Dali prints in Antwerp. I went to the gallery and was surprised to find that many of the prints, signed by Dali, were selling for $200 Canadian. If I’d had any money I would have bought them. But it shocked me. Was Dali desperate? I think he might have made prints or had prints made of his work and signed thousands. He was a very odd man. But interesting. He made a film with Disney which is quite interesting. He made a film with Hitchcock and clothing designs for Coco Chanel. I love his work. But he is like Nietsche in that there may be more smoke than substance to his work. Still his work has influenced generations of artists and I suspect has helped recruitment for the schools of psychology.
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Philippe Halsman
3 05 2012Halsman and Dali were great and important collaborators.
These images have become iconic they are seen so often. Halsman collaborated with Dali on them. It is difficult to separate the two. They almost appear to have been created by photoshop but this of course was decades before PS. Halsman also took wonderful pictures of famous people. This photo of Brando is one of my favourites.
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Dali, Disney, Floyd and Marsepan
4 02 2012This video was created by Walt Disney and Salvador Dali. Pink Floyd have added music which I think is quite effective. It would have been interesting to be in the company of Dali and Walt Disney when they first met. Of course Dali is the greater artist. But Disney has had the greater affect on our culture. Not just the little mouse. And the theme parks. But Disney’s homogenized renditions of history in his movies. And television shows. Walt himself was almost an icon of niceness. And of course for years Disney was the subject of speculation. Did he really have his body frozen to be melted at some future date when the causes of his death could be cured? Maybe then Mickey and Minnie will finally stop living together and get married.
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Ben Goossens
4 12 2011(Excuse me. I have fallen into a Kenneth Clark form of speaking. And I can’t get out of it.)
Goossens has three qualities that make for a terrific artist. He is a Belgian. He uses bowler hats. And he has talent. Oh, and there is a fourth. He has ideas. And their fun. Interesting. But not I think terribly original. Still, I love to look at his work. There is to my mind more Magritte in his work than Dali. He has none of Dali’s spirituality. Or showmanship. But he has Magritte’s humor and intelligence. And more than that I think.
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Vittore Carpaccio
24 11 2011When I see Carpaccio’s work I see Dali. The landscapes. The way the trees and earth are shaped. I almost expect to see a time piece on the bench. And not Christ. Even his portraits have this sensual surreal quality about them. And his large en masse scenes have a collage affect. Crucixions multiplied. Angels. Its all a magnificent fantasy.
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Lee Harvey Roswell
15 07 2011Lee Harvey Roswell. Read his name and you get an idea where he is coming from. This is Dali in the 21st century. The court jester. His works are exuberant. His mind is like a scrap heap of visual images. Craftsmanship and imagination. What a combination.
‘I am not interested in abstract art, or cutesy sentimental art, or childish art, or political art, or graffiti art, or post-Picasso laziness, or what breakfast cereals you ate and what television programs you watched when you were a kid. None of that matters to me. Without the least hint of apology I tell you to me it’s nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. No, I’m interested in exactly this: creating narratives involving the fantastic images there to be culled forth from those fertile depths of the creative, neurotic-like mind. Concrete objects in mad motion, reflecting all the seductive, terrifying elements of existence.’
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Dali
2 06 2011When I lived in Belgium many years ago, there was an exhibition of Dali prints in Antwerp. I went to the gallery and was surprised to find that many of the prints, signed by Dali, were selling for $200 Canadian. If I’d had any money I would have bought them. But it shocked me. Was Dali desperate? I think he might have made prints or had prints made of his work and signed thousands. He was a very odd man. But interesting. He made a film with Disney which is quite interesting. He made a film with Hitchcock and clothing designs for Coco Chanel. I love his work. But he is like Nietsche in that there may be more smoke than substance to his work. Still his work has influenced generations of artists and I suspect has helped recruitment for the schools of psychology.
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